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Tenacity - The Tale of a Thousand Hearts: After losing his family to a ruthless imperial expansion, a fifteen-year-old boy named Aldric embarks on a j
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Publisher: Notion Press
Published: May 11 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Aldric is fifteen years old when the empire comes to Caerdn. It doesn't come with a declaration. It comes with hoofbeats and orange smoke and a man with clean hands who signed a document on a Tuesday, dispatched soldiers on a Thursday, and moved on before the week was out. By the time Aldric runs down the hill, his village is not burning. It is burned. His family is gone.
Everything he had, and everything he was going to become, has been reduced to an administrative action in a ledger no one will ever read.
He has nothing left. No sword. No food. No plan worth the name. He walks anyway.
Tenacity: The Tale of A Thousand Hearts follows Aldric across two years of occupied Valdoris - through forest roads and resistance cells, through grief so heavy it rewrites the body, through the slow and unglamorous work of building something that might, one day, matter. Beside him is Eira: a girl who understands that the empire's truest weapon is not the sword but the erasure of names, and who has decided, with quiet and unbreakable purpose, to be the answer to it.This is not a story about a hero who rises. It is a story about what it actually costs to keep rising - and keep rising again - when the want runs out and the dark says enough and there is nothing left but the choice to stand back up anyway.It is a story about tenacity. Not the grand, gleaming version. The real version. The daily, unglamorous, refusing-to-stop version.
The even so.
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